Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Comprehensive Overview

Predictive Management

IDEF Lexicon for Executives

Organization of This Book

Smart Data in Three Dimensions

Business Rule

Case Study: IT Capital Budgeting Using a Knapsack Problem

Case Study: Better Decision Making: Field Testing, Evaluation and Validation of a Web-Based MedWatch Decision Support System (MWDSS)

Engineering an Ubiquitous Strategy for Catalyzing Enterprise Performance Optimization

What Smart Data Provides

References

1 Context: The Case and Place for Smart Data Strategy

1.1 Value of Data to the Enterprise

1.2 Enterprise Performance Versus Enterprise Integration

1.3 Current Problems and Deficiencies from Poor Data Strategy

1.4 New Technologies

1.5 Breaking from Tradition with Improved Results

References

2 Elements: Smart Data and Smart Data Strategy

2.1 Performance Outcomes and Attributes

2.2 Policy and Business Rules

2.3 Expectations: Managerial and Technical

2.4 Capacity for Change and Improvement

2.5 Iteration Versus Big Bang

References

3 Barriers: Overcoming Hurdles and Reaching a New Performance Trajectory

3.1 Barriers

3.2 Overcoming Barriers

3.3 Top–Down Strategy

3.4 Balance of Consequences and Reinforcement

3.5 Collaboration

3.6 Enterprise Performance Optimization Process

3.7 Enterprise Performance Optimization Architecture

3.8 Scoping, Scheduling, Budgeting, and Project and Program Management

References

4 Visionary Ideas: Technical Enablement

4.1 Today's Possibilities

4.2 Calibrating ...